Cerebral Cortex: Principles of Operation

"A book remarkable in its ambition, and even more remarkable in its content. A truly landmark achievement by a neuroscientist who has brought together his lifetime of research knowledge and experience into this outstanding volume. Edmund Rolls is to be congratulated on this impressive synthesis of decades of neuroscience data."

The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex. These principles are key to understanding how we, as humans, function.

There have been few previous attempts to set out some of the important principles of operation of the cortex, and this book is pioneering. The book goes beyond separate connectional neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychiatric, and computational neuroscience approaches, by combining evidence from all these areas to formulate hypotheses about how and what the cerebral cortex computes. As clear hypotheses are needed in this most important area of 21st century science, how our brains work, the author has formulated a set of hypotheses about the principles of cortical operation to guide thinking and future research.

The book focusses on the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex, because at this time it is possible to propose and describe many principles, and many are likely to stand the test of time, and provide a foundation for further developments, even if some need to be changed. In this context, I have not attempted to produce an overall theory

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Edmund T. Rolls 

ISBN:

978-0-19-878485-2

Specialty:

• Neuroscience
• Neurology
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Cell Biology

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

1008

Publication Year:

2016

Doody's Star Rating®:

Score:

96

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